The purpose of these drawings is to help swordmakers and propmakers. When it comes to making katana's or zanpakuto's most of the time the tsuba is the most unique part of the sword. It is the part of the katana which has most of design. So I drew up these closely detailed and accurate measurements of these tsuba's. With these tsuba's they act as a reference when your going to attempt to make the sword. If you use a scene from a anime or manga to make use reference for your tsuba, it might be flawed. So I have saved you the trouble and drawn them all out clearly, with measurements so you can print and cut them out.

Samurai Champloo - Z Eyes Katana: My gosh, this was a difficult tsuba to draw in a while, I hate rounded squares. Also theres no actual name for Jin's katana, but this was the name I lifted off a website that sells replica swords, better with a name then no name. I expect this tsuba to be the hardest to make for me, because theres not a single straight line in the tsuba besides the center. Trying to squeeze in detail parts into a tsuba is like a can of sardines, it has to be perfect and no spaces.

Samurai Champloo - Typhoon Swell: I will first like to say Typhoon Swell is one of the most awesome names for a sword I have heard. This sword is used by Mugen, and I have not really seen a sword like this before, which makes Mugen even more of a polar opposite against Jin. I am pretty sure that this tsuba I have drawn is not symetrical, I tried tracing one side out onto the other, but it does not seem to have come out well. I always wonder though how mugen actually sheaths his sword, because its a fabric sheath on his back but what does the blade feed into?

Important Notes:

. ALL these guards slide into swords with a thicnkess of 5 mm and 30 mm long, there are some exceptions..The parrallel lines are the rims of the guards that you cut out of balsa wood and glue onto the main guard..Download the full version, then copy and paste it, print it off then cut it out with scissors. .Once it the paper tsuba is cut out, then draw around it with a pencil on the wood, then cut it out to finish.

lol, im drawing out the guards im still stuck on the 7 star sword HAHA but b4 i even try to make them, i got like 55 to 70 i wanna make i draw and plan, i need kurogans swords hilt lol,i cant draw the dragon from the front, top or bottom lol

I never realised Jin's sword had such a cool tsuba design before~ I think... that one will be difficult, I wish you luck ;DI'm inclined to agree about Mugen's though; Typhoon Swell is a really cool name *~*

And I facepalm at all the people who didn't read your previous description... or recognise the defaults as Tensa Zangetsu & Sode no Shirayuki for that matter -_-;;

Jins katana indeed have a cool tsuba design ^^ if it was difficult to draw, it will be a joy to make it lol >.> typhoon swell is very cool, matches the owner very well XD

Amazing O.O I am staring at a person who actually read and understood the discription lol. I just was not able to upload it on the day, so I just put on the default until I could lol a simple reason people could not grasp XD

Before people post yet again "these are rukia and ichigo's tsuba lol" When I am unable to post the actual tsuba's on the day, because of a technical problem, I upload the default tsuba's in place until I can upload the actual tsuba's. In this case the default tsuba's is the first ones I ever drew which is ichigo's and rukia's. I still include the correct text and links in the discription beforehand on the day.